Yaounde, 30 May 2020 (ECA) - Central African countries must upgrade the skills base, competencies and put innovation at the centre of their development if they want to remain competitive, break the vicious cycle of overdependence on the export of commodities and harness the opportunities offered by COVID19 in the pharmaceuticals and food sector.
Yaounde, 25 May, 2020 (ECA) - The Subregional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be organizing a webinar on “Skills for Economic diversification in Central Africa: challenges and opportunities” on Friday 29 May 2020 from 10:00 to 13:00 Yaounde time (GMT+1).The link for connection is *https://bit.
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Yaounde, March 16, 2020 (ECA) – Economies within the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) will collectively have a 4.7 percentage point drop in their projected GDP growth this year as a result of the severe impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak (COVID-19), which is also projected to cost the entire continent billions of dollars to fight it and half of its growth potential.
Brazzaville / Yaounde, March 13, 2020 (ECA) - A wide range of actors from around twenty sectors and social strata have today teamed up with the Government of the Republic of Congo and the UN Economic Commission Africa (CECA) to validate the country’s long-term development strategy paper, known as Congo Vision 2048.
Yaounde / N'Djamena, February 27, 2020 (CEA) - The Chadian Government and the Sub-Regional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are co-organizing a workshop to review and finalize the Industrialization and Economic Diversification Master Plan (PDIDE, in French) for the Republic of Chad, from March 2 to 6 2020 in N'Djamena
PDIDE, which covers the decade 2020-2030, seeks to move the country's economic growth rate from around -2% (in 2017) to more than 8% per year until 2030.